The Top 10 Ways to Build a Long-Term Coaching Relationship

Leadership E-Bulletin ISSUE #44

This week we feature List #5 in our series of Top 10 Lists for Great Coaching –

The Top 10 Ways to Build a Long-Term Coaching Relationship.

Great coaching can happen nearly anywhere: in a hallway conversation, in a performance appraisal or in project status meeting. However, if the person being coached is seeking a significant, sustained change in their performance or career, it usually requires multiple conversations over some period of time.

Here are the The Top 10 Ways to Build a Long-Term Coaching Relationship:

#1. Have great expectations for the person being coached. Never let them sell themselves short or pursue anything but their very best path forward.
#2. Accept nothing less than their very best efforts during the coaching process.
#3. Help them broaden their world-view by constantly challenging their thinking and sharing alternate perspectives.
#4. Coach to their values, beliefs and aspirations encouraging them to set their own personal standards of performance.
#5. Help them discover or rediscover the parts of themselves that are most unique and most treasured.
#6. Always treat them with dignity and respect especially when they are not at their best.
#7. Recognize and celebrate every breakthrough and victory no matter how small.
#8. Always work at their most fertile growing edge.
#9. Be generous with your kindness and empathy when they struggle with the emotions, self-doubt and uncertainty of learning and development.
#10. Tell them things other will not.

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